St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-14
The REDS BURIED
The Five High Priests of An
arehy in Chicago Borne
to Their Graves.
A Great Crowd in the Process
sion, but Perfect Order
Prevails.
No Red Flags Are Carried, but
Crimson Is Displayed on
the Coffins.
A View Of the Cortege as 1t
Passed the Scene Of the
Great Riot.
Profuse Display of Red by
the Female Friends OF the
Dead Men.
The Trip by Train to Wald-
helm Unmarked by Unto
ward Incidents.
Speeches at the Graves--Capt.
Blacks Remarks Not
Ineendiary.
The Trip by Train to Wald-
helm Unmarked by Unto
ward Incidents.
Speeches at the Graves--Capt.
Blacks Remarks Not
IneendiaPy.
Other Speakers Create Much
Excitement by Their Fu-
pious UttePances.

CHICAGO, Nov. 13.-Flitting mile after
mile in gloom, close down TO the cold,
fiat earth, five unseen, soulleSS figures.
fleeing in death as from the one great
Being for whom alone there can be no
law, found a hiding place in the dark
ness at the most deSolate spot on the
prairie's wide eXpanSe. The five
CHASTITY figures were the symbols of at
tempted destruction to law-they were
the five dead anarchists, Spies and Par
SONS and Fischer and Engel and Lingg.
Probably half a million people in the
city of their terrible crime saw the last
public preparations for the final flight
to the tomb. Scarcely more than half
the number expected, 1000 men and $50
women, aided in the city by forming in
procession behind them. Ten thousand
people were present in the barest,
emptiest graveyard adjacent to
Chicago when the corpSeS at
last were hidden. Muttered curses
and bitter murmurS and a cry OF
"Throttle the law" accompanied the
parting words spoken over the five life
less bodies. 1t was almost to second
the exact time. fOrty-eight hours before,
the scaffold drop fell with August Spies
and his comrades, that to-day the black
est of hearSes drew up at the door of his
relatives. More peculiar still was the
fact that the hearse was just ready to
start at the precise moment correspond
ing to the announcement at the gallows
that Spies had ceased to breathe.
THIS WAS THE BEGINNING
of the obsequies. The scene is at the
extreme northwestern corner of the
city, and the route taken reSembled
nothing so much as a monster black
snake, stretching right to the center of
Chicago and protruding out and beyond
the furtheSt southwestern angle. The
Serried lines of blackneSS were formed
of human beings wedged together into
almost a single continuous whole. Off
from Milwaukee avenue Spies lived in
a little oasis of well-tO-dO Americans and
Germans, while the others entOmbed
to-day had places of abode scattered at
intervals of five or six blocks close to
the same thOroughfare, but in the midst
of the most ignorant and uncOuth
classes of ChicagO'S foreign-born pOpu-
latiOn. About 4,000 persons, most of
them neighborS of the Spies family,
were congregated on the street and side
walks of the block in which Spies lived
when the time for the departure ar
rived. As at the other houses where
the anarchist bodies lay, constant
stream of mournerS or curious sight
seers had been, since almost daylight,
pouring through the buildings and
viewing the livid remains or gazing at
the weeping relatives. When the forty
eight hours anniversary of the scaffOld
drop had come and the sOmber hearSe
was standing patient at the curb, the
tall, stately form Of Capt, Black, the an
archists' chief counsel, was seen step
ping out through the thrOng at the
Spies threshold. Supported on his arm
and head pillowed on his shoulder was a
clinging, girliSh figure clad in Grape
from head to fOOt-a picture of utter
woe. The face was completely veiled
from sight. Instantly the whisper was
heard on every side: There she ISL
THERE'S NINA VAN ZANDT;"
THAT'S Spies wife" 1t was not till
the coffin had been placed in the hearse,
the immediate mourners had entered
carriages. and 500 blue-badged turner's
had formed in ranks ahead, that the
crowd discovered its mistake. Calmly
seated in the first carriage, without one
sign of mourning in her apparel or a
single trace of grief in her pale, set face,
was Nina Van Zandt. The countenance
was Enthusiastically that of Spies youth
full proxy bride, but it had suddenly ac-
Quired dignity and matureness that
gave an unlocked for, but far from re-
pellant aspect to one of her years. Aside
from this expression the shapely feat
ures wore peculiar yellOwish pallor
1t may have been a mere fancy of the
observers, but those who saw the face
of Spies, as he trod to his place on the
gallOwS, say the pallor on his
cOuntenance then was exactly that
to-day on the face of Nina Van
Zandt She was appareled in we'll
worn, fur-trimmed wrap of dark wine
colored or purple velvet, very simply
made dress of black silk and a small,
neat brown feathered bonnet to match
the wrap. While the crowds were re-
covering from their surprise at
MISS VAN ZANDT's DEMEANoR
and dress, the black-clad girl who had
accompanied Capt. Black into the same
carriage with Spies pseudo wife threw
back her veil and disclosed the tear
stained features of the dead mans sister
Gretchen. Alongside of Miss Van Zandt,
and listening eagerly at times to her